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The past can be known in the individual finite consciousness only as a present idea, but it is otherwise with the infinite mind. Yet when you say that all time is present time, that past present and future are coexistent, you can say this only at the price of eliminating all the sense-experience content of time. But as soon as you can do this, then the whole meaning of temporal existence changes completely and neither past nor future events can come into visibility of any kind. For everything that is individual and finite dies and disappears in the new temporal form.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4 : Time, Space, Causality > # 150